Andrew Marr has been praised for his comments about Brexit. He said some of the over the top reactions is “hot under the collar at the ludicrous, offensive & unpatriotic language that’s being thrown around by the Brexit right… talking about surrender & betrayal… is the language of war, & that’s deranged…”
He also wrote for the LBC website: “That is deranged. We’re not at war with the European Union or France, we have been negotiating with them, give and take to increase prosperity. The Brexiteers have cost the economy – that is, you and me – around 4% of our GDP, according to the office of budget responsibility.
“Bloomberg Economics, not exactly a wing of the Socialist Workers Party, suggests it has cost Britain £100 billion every year in lost output.”
“Brexiteers have been arguing today that the extra boost to the British economy from this deal, 9 billion, is nothing like enough – but they are also arguing and just the same time it goes too far. Do a smaller deal for a bigger result?
“None of this makes sense. But, for our friends on the hard-core Brexit side of the argument, Nothing would.”
In a similar vein, The Guardian’s John Crace wrote: “Starmer’s EU reset triggers outbreak of Brexit derangement syndrome.
He added in his article: “Even after nine years, it was still too soon to say the obvious. That Britain had voted to make itself poorer. That Brexiters had radicalised themselves. No one had been insisting we leave the single market and the customs union during the referendum campaign. That had only become a truth some time later. So all Starmer was trying to do was to make the country just a little bit better off. You’d have thought from the reaction that this was a major schism.”
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Someone shared a clip of the BBC’s Chris Mason questioning Keir Starmer, asking the PM if it was the truth that he has sold the nation out.
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